Really, really stupid stuff you think about when riding…

When crossing a stream channel, I sometimes imagine that an unseen enemy has dammed it further up, just waiting for the right moment to unleash a torrent of destruction.

ah crap I didn’t get the pastry out of the freezer better pedal faster

When I was at school it was the ugliest girl in the class, now it’s my fav pronstar 😉

^^^ Yourself?

Why aren’t foxes domesticated, I would love to own a fox.

GW – Member
When I was at school it was the ugliest girl in the class, now it’s my fav pronstar

Are they the same person? 😈

Foxes smell

I’m constantly considering ways to evade Them…

When I was at school it was the ugliest girl in the class, now it’s my fav pronstar

at your age I suppose drooping problems are gonna happen!

Rob Hilton – Member
Foxes smell

What of? have you ever smelt a fox

Any singletrack going through a pair of trees = some kind of portal, but only at certain times.

First hour working through various current problems with work and stuff, then pizza generally, actually Pizza most of the time 😳

muckytee – Member

Rob Hilton – Member
Foxes smell

What of? have you ever smelt a fox

They smell of Foxes 🙄

Unfortunately I’ve recently started recounted the mind numbingly spirit crushingly, scrotum shrivellingly embarrassing things I’ve said/done in my youth (Late teens/pretty much all of my twenties) there’s a lot, end up soft pedalling for a while til I get over it.

i have a habit of getting shit songs stuck in my head, the worst offender would be hall and oats

“you’re outta a touch, im outta time,
im outta my head, when you’re not around
you’re outta a touch, im outta time”

this monstrosity was on repeat in my head for 3 hours because i dont know any of the other words 🙁

Could be worse, it may be the Robbie Williams/Take That I was subjected to at work many years ago. Whenever I get an aural flashback I know that a pratfall into a prickly bush is soon to follow…

I count, don’t start a 1 or anything normal, just find myself counting from anywhere between 2-100.
It’s gotten kinda weird as it’s become an unconscious habit, & I’ve no idea how to stop it.

The theme tunes from Zingzillas, Chuggington, Octonauts, In The Night Garden etc etc etc

I usually have the most catchy/annoying song I’ve heard on the radio recently stuck in my head when I’m riding. Or when I’m pushing hard on the road bike it’s usually the line “aint nothing gonna break my stride, aint nothing gonna slow me down” from Every Time I Die’s The Good Life that goes through my head loads 😆

The theme tunes from Zingzillas, Chuggington, Octonauts, In The Night Garden etc etc etc

before the embarassment started I had 64 zoo lane, postman pat or octonauts.

I think about how cool I must appear to anyone I meet out on the trails.. so if you see me out and about and I look a little aroused.. you know why

_tom_ – Member
I usually have the most catchy/annoying song I’ve heard on the radio recently stuck in my head when I’m riding.

This.

Round Cannock on Tuesday it was a pretty solid two hours of the current Katy Perry chorus.

slainte 😯 rob

I get the most repetitive song possible in my head and time it to pedal strokes. Annoying when it sticks for days though…

Actual thoughts get pretty bizarre, night riding especially – what happens if there’s a bear in the woods? Lottery win plans often go through my head, generally anything to distract me from the fact a hill is beating me!!

Riding Time = Top Thinking Time

Rivalled only by bath time and walking time. Walking and bath tend to result in quite focused, detailed, problem solving thinking. Normally work or similar technically complex stuff. Some great ideas and solutions have been formulated here.

Riding time, on the other hand, equally complex thought time, but more philosophical. Sometime work / problem solving related, but lots of lateral and tangential connections.

I think my brain loves it when my body is busy

Sometimes forget where I am on my local loop.

Not forget as in ‘lost’ but charge up to a flowing right-hander on autopilot before realising it’s a tight left-hander.

Having more than one bike also has its disadvantages when one commits to that four foot drop-off on one’s XC hardtail having slayed it the day before on one’s FR bike.

Round Cannock on Tuesday it was a pretty solid two hours of the current Katy Perry chorus.

Yeah it’s usually a Katy Perry song for me as well for some reason 😆

I usually have 5 second loops of lyrics/songs going round my head.

Yesterday it was this…

Funny, don’t really get the music thing going on

i have a habit of getting shit songs stuck in my head

This. Only ever a single chorus or half a verse. Very annoying.

what’s that fluttering in my chest …………… 😯

cake and a brew

Did i lock the car?

Even though i always double check before..

I think up ways to find time to ride more which seems like sure fire winners until they are thwarted within a day or two.

On the Downhills i’m usually thinking “whhhoooppeee” and feeling like i’m 12 again.

On the uphills i’m usually thinking, why am i blue and should my lungs be on the outside of my body?

Towards the end of the ride i’m thinking, should i undo the benefit of all this exercise i’ve just done and have a cheeky “sports pint?”

Out on a ride the other day I was drawn into a weird fantasy of being able to tap dance really well, you know like Fred Astair. All my friends where gathered round me,’at the bar of my fantasy pub’ cheering.
Not sure if it was due to a lack of oxygen getting to my brain on an uphill?

Spent most of last nights’ race at Haldon thinking ‘am I having a heart attack..?’ But after the cramp/stitch passed, mainly thought about the substantial fried sandwich I’d be eating the following morning.

Pleased to report that sausage, bacon, egg, tomatoes, mushrooms and black pudding on three tasted soooooo good. (Hey, it’s a rare treat eh?) 8)

“whose on STW”??? when they should be out ridin.

As a deluded fantasist with a constant internal monologue, I sometimes fantasise that I have inexplicably been picked for a tour de france team, and though I am clearly in last place (no other riders around) I have to keep going to make the cut off else my team will suffer.

I have also been known to imagine what it would be like to be chased by a helicopter over the moors and how I would best evade its cannons, although I did once suffer a number of “straffing runs” from an A10 back in the day, I guess a cyclist is a harder target to lock onto than a tank, and therefore makes good practice. As a result of this I’m constantly checking the skies.

This week I’ve had the small potatoes theme in my head, constantly. Sometimes I sing it out loud, including the harmonies, this i find works better than a bell.

Loving the “sports pint”!

My arms get in the way when I sleep, it would be awesome if I could remove them at night, and pop em back on again in the morning…